December 20 History
December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 11 days remain until the end of the year.
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aim is to enhance the knowledge of human beings. We will have 7 years of
history on this side. The history of each particular day by date is what
happened on a date. The date of death of any person and special person will be
reported. If anyone wants to gain this knowledge then please visit our web
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আমাদের উদ্দেশ্য হলো
মানুয়ের জ্ঞানের পরিধি বাড়ানো। আমাদের এই সাইডে থাকবে ১ বছরের সমস্থ ঘটে যাওয়া
ইতিহাস। তারিখ অনুসারে প্রতিটি বিশেষ দিনের ইতিহাস কোন তারিখে কি
ঘটেছিল। কোন ব্যাক্তির জন্য এবং বিশেষ ব্যাক্তির মৃত্যর তারিখ জানানো হবে। যদি কোন
মানুষ এই জ্ঞান অর্জন করতে চায় তাহলে আমাদের এই ওয়েবসাইডটি ভিজিট করুন । আপনার
জ্ঞানের সীমা অনেক বৃদ্ধি পাবে।
AD 69 – Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.[1]
1192 – Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after the Third Crusade.[2]
1334 – Cistercian Jacques Fournier is elected Pope Benedict XII.[3]
1606 – The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
1808 – Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
1808 – The original Covent Garden Theatre in London is destroyed by a fire, along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts.
1832 – HMS Clio under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of the Falkland Islands
1860 – South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
1915 – World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
1924 – Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
1941 – World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
1942 – World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.
1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
1948 – Indonesian National Revolution: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly-formed Republic of Indonesia.
1951 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1952 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
1955 – Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
1957 – The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
1967 – A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 155 mph on their New York Division, also present day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
1968 – The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
1971 – The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
1973 – The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.
1984 – The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.
1985 – Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
1987 – In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
1989 – The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.
1991 – A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
1995 – NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
1995 – American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 159.
1999 – Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.
2004 – A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history.
2007 – Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, seven months and 29 days.
2007 – The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
Births
1494 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
1496 – Joseph ha-Kohen, historian and physician (d. 1575)
1537 – John III, king of Sweden (d. 1592)
1576 – John Sarkander, Moravian priest and saint (d. 1620)
1626 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German scholar and politician (d. 1692)
1629 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (d. 1684)
1641 – Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (d. 1724)
1719 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French politician and diplomat, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1787)
1740 – Arthur Lee, American physician and diplomat (d. 1792)
1786 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)
1792 – Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French painter and educator (d. 1845)
1806 – Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) (d. 1871)[4]
1812 – Laura M. Hawley Thurston, American poet and educator (d. 1842)[5]
1838 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian, author, and educator (d. 1926)
1841 – Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
1861 – Ferdinand Bonn, German actor (d. 1933)
1861 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)
1865 – Elsie de Wolfe, American actress and interior decorator (d. 1950)
1868 – Harvey Samuel Firestone, American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (d. 1938)
1869 – Charley Grapewin, American actor (d. 1956)
1871 – Henry Kimball Hadley, American composer and conductor (d. 1937)
1873 – Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian, author, and academic (d. 1948)
1873 – Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, academic, and politician (d. 1936)
1881 – Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager (d. 1965)
1886 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player and businessman (d. 1974)
1888 – Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic (d. 1980)
1888 – Fred Merkle, American baseball player and manager (d. 1958)
1890 – Yvonne Arnaud, French pianist, actress and singer (d. 1958)
1890 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1891 – Erik Almlöf, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1971)
1894 – Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
1898 – Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and politician, 156th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1973)
1898 – Irene Dunne, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
1899 – Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Welsh preacher and physician (d. 1981)
1900 – Lissy Arna, German film actress (d. 1964)
1901 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic, invented the Van de Graaff generator (d. 1967)
1902 – Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
1902 – Sidney Hook, American philosopher and author (d. 1989)
1904 – Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1984)
1904 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (d. 1977)
1905 – Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1992)
1907 – Paul Francis Webster, American soldier and songwriter (d. 1984)
1908 – Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer (d. 1994)
1909 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician (d. 2000)
1911 – Hortense Calisher, American author (d. 2009)
1914 – Harry F. Byrd Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician (d. 2013)
1915 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish author and poet (d. 1995)
1916 – Michel Chartrand, Canadian trade union leader and activist (d. 2010)
1917 – David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher (d. 1992)
1917 – Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (d. 1997)
1917 – Audrey Totter, American actress (d. 2013)
1918 – Jean Marchand, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1988)
1922 – George Roy Hill, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1922 – Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter
1924 – Charlie Callas, American actor and comedian (d. 2011)
1924 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1980)
1925 – Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
1926 – Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2015)
1926 – Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Economics (d. 2009)
1927 – Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark, English engineer and politician (d. 2016)
1927 – Jim Simpson, American sportscaster (d. 2016)
1927 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, 7th President of South Korea (d. 2015)
1931 – Mala Powers, American actress (d. 2007)
1932 – John Hillerman, American actor (d. 2017)
1933 – Jean Carnahan, American author and politician
1933 – Olavi Salonen, Finnish runner
1933 – Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist
1935 – Khalid Ibadulla, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster
1939 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (d. 2012)
1939 – Kim Weston, American soul singer
1940 – Pat Chapman, English chef and author, founded The Curry Club
1942 – Rana Bhagwandas, Pakistani lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of Pakistan (d. 2015)
1942 – Bob Hayes, American sprinter and football player (d. 2002)
1942 – Michael P. Johnson, American sociologist
1942 – Jean-Claude Trichet, French banker and economist
1944 – Bobby Colomby, American drummer and producer
1944 – Ray Martin, Australian television host and journalist
1945 – Peter Criss, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
1945 – Sivakant Tiwari, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and author (d. 2010)
1946 – Uri Geller, Israeli-English magician and psychic
1946 – Lloyd Mumphord, American football player
1946 – Sonny Perdue, American captain and politician, 81st Governor of Georgia
1946 – Dick Wolf, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1947 – Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer-songwriter
1948 – Alan Parsons, English keyboard player and producer
1948 – Carol Smart, English sociologist and academic
1948 – Mitsuko Uchida, Japanese-British pianist
1949 – Soumaïla Cissé, Malian engineer and politician
1949 – Oscar Gamble, American baseball player (d. 2018)
1950 – Arturo Márquez, Mexican-American composer
1951 – Nuala O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan, Northern Irish academic and police ombudsman
1951 – Marta Russell, American author and activist (d. 2013)
1952 – Jenny Agutter, English actress
1954 – Michael Badalucco, American actor
1954 – Sandra Cisneros, American author and poet
1955 – David Breashears, American mountaineer, director, and producer
1955 – Binali Yıldırım, Turkish lawyer and politician, Turkish Minister of Transport
1955 – Martin Schulz, German politician
1956 – Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Mauritanian general and politician, President of Mauritania
1956 – Guy Babylon, American keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2009)
1956 – Blanche Baker, American actress and screenwriter
1956 – Junji Hirata, Japanese wrestler
1956 – Andrew Mackenzie, Scottish geologist and businessman
1956 – Anita Ward, American disco/R&B singer
1957 – Billy Bragg, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Anna Vissi, Cypriot singer-songwriter and actress
1957 – Mike Watt, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1958 – Doug Nordquist, American high jumper
1958 – James Thomson, American biologist and academic
1959 – George Coupland, Scottish scientist
1959 – Hildegard Körner, German runner
1959 – Jackie Fox, American bass player (The Runaways)
1959 – Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Polish physicist and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Poland
1959 – Trent Tucker, American basketball player and sportscaster
1960 – Nalo Hopkinson, Jamaican-Canadian author and educator
1960 – Kim Ki-duk, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Mohammad Fouad, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor
1961 – Mike Keneally, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 – Freddie Spencer, American motorcycle racer
1963 – Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo
1964 – Mark Coleman, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
1965 – Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor and director
1965 – Rich Gannon, American football player and sportscaster
1966 – Matt Neal, English race car driver
1966 – Veronica Pershina, Russian-American figure skater and coach
1966 – Chris Robinson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Joe Cornish, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1968 – Karl Wendlinger, Austrian race car driver
1969 – Alain de Botton, Swiss-English philosopher and author
1969 – Zahra Ouaziz, Moroccan runner
1969 – Bobby Phills, American basketball player (d. 2000)
1970 – Grant Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1970 – Alister McRae, Scottish race car driver
1970 – Jörg Schmidt, German footballer
1971 – Roger J. Beaujard, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1972 – Sarah Jones, British politician
1972 – Anders Odden, Norwegian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1972 – Anja Rücker, German sprinter
1972 – Gen Urobuchi, Japanese writer
1973 – Maarja Kangro, Estonian author and poet
1973 – David Nedohin, Canadian curler and sportscaster
1973 – Cory Stillman, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1974 – Die, Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1974 – Paul Linger, English footballer
1974 – Jacqui Oatley, British sports presenter
1975 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
1976 – Nenad Vučković, Croatian footballer
1978 – Andrei Markov, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Geremi Njitap, Cameroon footballer
1978 – Bouabdellah Tahri, French runner
1978 – Yoon Kye-sang, South Korean singer (g.o.d)
1979 – David DeJesus, American baseball player
1979 – Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist
1979 – Ramón Rodríguez, Puerto Rican-American actor and dancer
1980 – Israel Castro, Mexican footballer
1980 – Ashley Cole, English footballer
1980 – Anthony da Silva, French-Portuguese footballer
1980 – Martín Demichelis, Argentinian footballer
1980 – Fitz Hall, English footballer
1981 – Royal Ivey, American basketball player
1981 – Darya Pchelnik, Belarusian hammer thrower
1981 – James Shields, American baseball player
1982 – Mohammad Asif, Pakistani cricketer
1982 – David Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982 – Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer
1982 – David Wright, American baseball player
1983 – Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1983 – Darren Sammy, Saint Lucian cricketer
1983 – Lara Stone, Dutch supermodel
1984 – Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer
1990 – JoJo, American singer and actress
1991 – Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
1991 – Fabian Schär, Swiss footballer
1992 – Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
1993 – Robeisy Ramírez, Cuban boxer
1997 – Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer
1998 – Kylian Mbappé, French footballer
Deaths
217 – Zephyrinus, pope of the Catholic Church
860 – Æthelbald, king of Wessex (b. 834)
910 – Alfonso III, king of Asturias
977 – Fujiwara no Kanemichi, Japanese statesman (b. 925)
1295 – Margaret of Provence, French queen (b. 1221)
1326 – Peter of Moscow, Russian metropolitan bishop
1340 – John I, duke of Bavaria (b. 1329)
1355 – Stefan Dušan, emperor of Serbia (b. 1308)
1539 – Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. 1506)
1552 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)
1590 – Ambroise Paré, French physician and surgeon (b. 1510)
1658 – Jean Jannon, French designer and typefounder (b. 1580)
1722 – Kangxi, emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1654)
1723 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652)
1740 – Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Portsmouth (b. 1675)
1765 – Louis, dauphin of France (b. 1729)
1768 – Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (b. 1692)
1783 – Antonio Soler, Spanish priest and composer (b. 1729)
1812 – Sacagawea, American explorer (b. 1788)
1820 – John Bell, American farmer (b. 1750)
1856 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian activist (b. 1820)
1862 – Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791)
1880 – Gaspar Tochman, Polish-American colonel and lawyer (b. 1797)
1893 – George C. Magoun, American businessman (b. 1840)
1915 – Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863)
1916 – Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (b. 1856)
1917 – Lucien Petit-Breton, French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882)
1917 – Eric Campbell, British actor (b. 1879)
1919 – Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1835)
1920 – Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)
1921 – Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general and politician (b. 1850)
1927 – Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)
1929 – Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838)
1935 – Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1882)
1937 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
1938 – Annie Armstrong, American missionary (b. 1850)
1938 – Matilda Howell, American archer (b. 1859)
1939 – Hans Langsdorff, German captain (b. 1894)
1941 – Igor Severyanin, Russian-Estonian poet and author (b. 1887)
1950 – Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)
1954 – James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1956 – Ramón Carrillo, Argentinian neurologist and physician (b. 1906)
1959 – Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1885)
1961 – Moss Hart, American director and playwright (b. 1904)
1961 – Earle Page, Australian soldier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
1968 – John Steinbeck, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1971 – Roy O. Disney, American banker and businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1893)
1972 – Adolfo Orsi, Italian businessman (b. 1888)
1973 – Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain (b. 1904; assassinated)[6]
1973 – Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)
1974 – R. A. Bevan, English advertiser (b. 1901)
1974 – Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (b. 1896)
1974 – André Jolivet, French guitarist and composer (b. 1905)
1976 – Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902)
1981 – Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)
1982 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
1984 – Stanley Milgram, American psychologist and academic (b. 1933)
1984 – Dmitry Ustinov, Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (1976-84) (b. 1908)[7]
1986 – Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
1991 – Simone Beck, French chef and author (b. 1904)[8]
1991 – Sam Rabin, English wrestler, singer, and sculptor (b. 1903)
1991 – Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
1993 – W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900)
1993 – Nazife Güran, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1921)
1994 – Dean Rusk, American lawyer, and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
1995 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)
1996 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (b. 1934)[9]
1997 – Denise Levertov, English-American poet and translator (b. 1923)
1997 – Dick Spooner, English cricketer (b. 1919)
1997 – Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)
1998 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
1999 – Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909)
1999 – Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
2001 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906)
2005 – Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)
2006 – Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (b. 1929)
2008 – Adrian Mitchell, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)
2008 – Robert Mulligan, American director and producer (b. 1925)
2008 – Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and race car driver (b. 1912)
2009 – Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)
2009 – Arnold Stang, American actor (b. 1918)
2010 – James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)
2010 – K. P. Ratnam, Sri Lankan academic and politician (b. 1914)
2011 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2012 – Stan Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1929)
2012 – Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1929)
2012 – Victor Merzhanov, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1919)
2013 – Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (b. 1930)
2014 – Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929)
2014 – John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (b. 1915)
